That is the Straight Path. (Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu WA
Ta’aala (GOD)'s Religion of Islamic Monotheism Which He did ordain for all of
His Prophets)."

Then the sects differed (the Christians about Jesus),

so woe unto the disbelievers
(those who gave false witness saying that Jesus is the son of Allah) From the meeting of a great Day (the Day of
Resurrection, when they will be thrown in the blazing Fire).

How clearly will they (polytheists and disbelievers in the
Oneness of Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD) see and hear,

the Day when they will appear before Us!

But the Zalimun
(polytheists and wrong-doers) today are in plain error.

And warn them (O
Muhammad) of the Day of grief and regrets, when the case has been decided,
while now they are in a state of carelessness

and they believe not. (Ch 19:16-39 Qur’an)

It was said that Joseph the Carpenter was greatly surprised
when he knew the story, so he asked Mary: "Can a tree come to grow without
a seed?"

She said: "Yes,
the one which Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD) created for the first
time." He asked her again:

"Is it possible to bear a child without a male
partner?" She said: "Yes, Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD),
created Adam without male or female!"

It was also said that, while pregnant, Mary went one day to
her aunt, who reported that she felt as if she was pregnant.

Mary in turn, said that she, too, was feeling as if she was
pregnant. Then her aunt said:

"I can see what
is in my womb prostrating to what is in your womb."

The Jewish priests felt this child Jesus was dangerous, for
they felt that the people would turn their worship to Allah the Almighty Alone,
Displacing the existing Jewish tenets. Consequently, they would lose their
authority over the people.

Therefore, they kept the miracle of Issa (Jesus)’ Alayhi-Salaam’s
speech in infancy as a secret and accused Mary of a great misdeed.

As Issa -Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) grew, the signs of prophet
hood began to increase.

He could tell his friends what kind of supper waited for
them at home and what they had hidden and where.

When he was twelve
years old, he accompanied his mother to Jerusalem.

There he wandered into the temple and joined a crowd
listening to the lecture of the Rabbis (Jewish priests).

The audiences were all adults, but he was not afraid to sit
with them. After listening intently, he asked questions and expressed his
opinion.

The learned rabbis were disturbed by the boy's boldness and
puzzled by the questions he asked, for they were unable to answer him.

They tried to silence him, but he ignored their attempts and
continued to express his views.

Issa-Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) became so involved in this
exchange that he forgot he as expected back home.

In the meantime, his mother went home, thinking that he
might have gone back with relatives or friends.

When she arrived, she discovered that he was not there, so
she returned to the city to look for him.

At last she found him in the temple, sitting among the
learned, conversing with them.

He appeared to be
quite at east, as if he had been doing this all his life.

Mary got angry with him for causing her worry.

He tried to assure
her that all the arguing and debating with the learned had made him forgot the
time.

Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) grew up to manhood. It was
Sabbath, a day of complete rest: no fire could be lit or extinguished nor could
females plait their hair.

Moses -Alayhi- Salaam had commanded that Saturday be
dedicated to the worship of Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD).

However, the wisdom behind the Sabbath and its spirit had
gone, and only the letter remained in the Jews' hearts.

Also, they thought that Sabbath was kept in heaven,

And that the People of Israel had been chosen by Almighty
ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD) only to observe the Sabbath.

They made a hundred things unlawful on Saturday even
self-defense or calling a doctor to save a patient who was in bad condition.

This is how their life was branded by such hypocrisy.

Although the Pharisees were guardians of the law, they were
ready to sell it when their interests were involved so as to obtain personal
gains.

There was, for example, a rule which prohibited a journey of
more than one thousand yards on the Sabbath day.

What do we expect of the Pharisees in this case? The day
before, they transferred their food and drink from their homes two thousand
yards away

And erected a temporary house so that from there they could
travel a further thousand yards on the Sabbath day.

One day the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Sallallaahu alayhi
wasallam) was on his way to the temple. Although it was the Sabbath, he reached
out his hand to pick two pieces of fruit to feed a hungry child.

This was considered to be a violation of the Sabbath law.

He made a fire for the old women to keep themselves warm
from the freezing air.Another Violation of the law of that time.

He went to the temple and looked around. There were twenty
thousand Jewish priests registered there who earned their living from the
temple.

The rooms of the temple were full of them.

Issa alayhi salaam observed that the visitors were much
fewer than the priests.

Yet the temple was full of sheep and doves which were sold
to the people to be offered as sacrifices.

Every step in the temple cost the visitor money. They
worshipped nothing but money. In the temple,

The Pharisees and Sadducees acted as if it was a market
place, and these two groups always disagreed on everything.

Issa (Jesus)’ Alayhi-Salaam’s followed the scene with his
eyes and observed that the poor people who could not afford

The prices of the sheep or dove were swept away like flies
by the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Issa –Alayhi -Salaam (Jesus) was astonished. Why did the
priests burn a lot of offerings inside the temple? While thousands of poor
people were hungry out side the temple?

On this blessed night, the two noble prophets Yahya (John) -
Alayhi-Salaam’s) and Zakariyah Alayhi-Salaam’s died, killed by the ruling
authority.

On the same night, the revelation descended upon Issa-
Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus

Allah the Exalted commanded him to begin his call to the
children of Israel.

To Issa-Alayhi -Salaam (Jesus), the life of ease was closed,
and the page of worship and struggled was opened.

Like an opposing force, the message of Issa- Alayhi-Salaam
(Jesus) came to denounce the practices of the Pharisees and to reinforce the
Law of Moses Alayhi salaam.

In the face of a materialistic age of luxury and worship of
gold, Issa (Jesus)’ Alayhi-Salaam’s called his people to a nobler life by word
and deed.

This exemplary life was the only way out of the wretchedness
and diseases of his age.

Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus)’s call, from the beginning, was
marked by its complete uprightness and piety. It appealed to the soul, the
inner being,

His call was based on
the principle that there is no mediation between the Creator and His creatures.

However, Issa-
Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) was in conflict with the Jews' superficial interpretation
of the Torah.

He said that he did not come to abrogate the Torah,

but to complete it by going to the spirit of its substance
to arrive at its essence.

He made the Jews understand that the Ten Commandments have
more value than they imagined.

For instance, the fifth commandment does not only prohibit
physical killing, but all forms of killing; physical, psychological, or
spiritual.

And the sixth commandment does not prohibit adultery only in
the sense of unlawful physical contact between a man and a woman,

But also prohibits
all forms of unlawful relations or acts that might lead to adultery. The eye
commits adultery when it looks at anything with passion.

Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) was therefore in confrontation
with the materialistic people. He told them to desist from hypocrisy, show and
false praise.

There was no need to hoard wealth in this life. They should
not preoccupy themselves with the goods of this passing world;

Rather they must preoccupy themselves with the affairs of
the coming world because it would be everlasting.

Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) told them that caring for this
world is a sin, not fit for pious worshippers.

The disbelievers care for it because they do not know a
better way.

As for the believers, they know that their sustenance is with
Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD), so they trust in Him and scorn this
world.

Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus)) continued to invite people to
worship the Only Lord, Who are without partner, just as he invited them to
purify the heart and soul.

His teaching annoyed the priests, for every word of Issa-
Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) was a threat to them and their position, exposing their
misdeeds.

The Roman occupiers had, at first, no intention of being
involved in this religious discord of the Jews because it was an internal
affair,

and they saw that this dispute would distract the Jews from
the question of the occupation.

However, the priests started to plot against Issa-
Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus)

They wanted to embarrass him and to prove that he had come
to destroy the Mosaic Law.

The Mosaic Law provides that an adulteress be stoned to
death.

They brought him a Jewish adulteress and asked Issa-
Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus)

"Does not the law stipulate the stoning of the
adulteress Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) answered: "Yes? They said:
"This woman is an adulteress."

Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) looked at the woman and then at
the priests. He knew that they were more sinful than she.

They agreed that she should be killed according to Mosaic
Law, and they understood that if he was going to apply Mosaic Law,

he would be
destroying his own rules of forgiveness and mercy.

Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) understood their plan. He smiled
and assented: "Whoever among you is sinless can stone her."

His voice rose in the middle of the Temple, making a new law on adultery, for the
sinless to judge sin.

There was none eligible; no mortal can judge sin, only Allah
the Most Merciful.

As Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) left the temple, the woman
followed him.

She took out a bottle of perfume from her garments, knelt
before his feet and washed them with perfume and tears, and then dried his feet
with her hair. Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) turned to the woman and told her to
stand up, adding: "O Lord, forgive her sins."

He let the priests understand that those who call people to
Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD) are not executioners.

His call was based on
mercy for the people, the aim of all divine calls.

Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus)) continued to pray to Almighty
ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD) for mercy on his people And to teach his
people to have mercy on one another and to believe in Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu
WA Ta’aala (GOD).

Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) continued his mission, aided by
divine miracles.

Some Quranic commentators said that Issa- Alayhi-Salaam
(Jesus) brought four people back from the dead:

a friend of his named Al-Azam, an old woman's son, and a
woman's only daughter.

These three had died during his lifetime. When the Jews saw
this they said:

"You only resurrect those who have died recently;
perhaps they only fainted." They asked him to bring back to life Sam the
Ibn Noah.

When he asked them to show him his grave, the people
accompanied him there. Jesus invoked Allah the Exalted to bring him back to
life and behold,

Sam the Ibn Noah came out from the grave gray-haired. Jesus
asked: "how did you get gray hair, when there was no aging in your
time?"

He answered: "O
Spirit of Allah, I thought that the Day of Resurrection had come; from the fear
of that day my hair turned gray."

Allah the Almighty said: Remember when Allah will say (on
the Day of Resurrection): "O Jesus, son of Mary!

Remember My Favor to
you and to your mother when I supported you with Ruh-ul-Qudus (Gabriel) so that
you spoke to the people in the cradle

And in maturity; and when I taught you writing, Al Hikmah
(the power of understanding), the Torah and the Gospel; and when you made out
of the clay,

as it were, the figure of a bird, by My Permission, and you
breathed into it, and it became a bird by My Permission,

And you healed those born blind, and the lepers by My
Permission, and when you brought forth the dead by My Permission;

And when I restrained the Children of Israel from you (when
they resolved to kill you) since you came unto them with clear proofs,

And the disbelievers among them said: 'This is nothing but
evident magic.'"

And when I (Allah) put in their hearts of the disciples (of
Jesus) to believe in Me and My Messenger, they said:

"We believe. And
bear witness that we are Muslims." (Ch 5:110-111 Qur’an)

Almighty Allah also revealed: And He Allah will teach him
(Jesus) the Book and Al Hikmah (the Sunna, the faultless speech of the
Prophets, wisdom, etc.),

(and) the Torah and the Gospel.

And will make him (Jesus) a Messenger to the Children of
Israel (saying):

"I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I
design for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird,

And breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave;
and I heal him, who was born blind, and the leper,

And I bring the dead to life by Allah's leave. And I inform
you of what you eat, and what you store in your houses.

Surely, therein is a sign for you, if you believe. And I have
come confirming that which was before me of the Torah,

And to make lawful to you part of what was forbidden to you,
and I have come to you with proof from your Lord.

So fear Allah and obey me. Truly! Allah is my Lord and your
Lord, so worship Him (Alone). This is the Straight Path."

Then when Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) came to know of their
disbelief, he said: "Who will be my helpers in Allah's Cause?

“The disciples said: "We are the helpers of Allah; we
believe in Allah, and bear witness that we are Muslims (we submit to
Allah)."

Our Lord! We believe in what You have sent down, and we
follow the Messenger (Jesus);

so write us down
among those who bear witness (to the truth, La ilaha ill Allah - none has the
right to be worshipped but Allah).

And they (disbelievers) plotted (to kill Issa- Alayhi-Salaam
(Jesus) and Allah planned too. And Allah is the Best of the planners. (Ch
3:48-54 Qur’an)

Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) continued calling people to
Almighty Allah and laying down for them what might be called "the law of
the Spirit."

Once when standing on
a mountain surrounded by his disciples, Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) saw that
those who believed in him were from among the poor,

the wretched, an the downtrodden, and their number was
small.

Some of the miracles which Issa- Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus))
performed had been requested by his disciples, Such as their wish for a
"holy table" to be sent down from heaven.

Allah the Exalted said: Remember when the disciples said:
"O Issa (Jesus), son of Mary!

Can your Lord send
down to us a table spread (with food) from heaven?" Jesus said:

"Fear Allah, if you are indeed believers." They
said: "We wish to eat thereof

And to be stronger in Faith and to know that you have indeed
told us the truth and that we ourselves be its witnesses."

, Issa -Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) son of Mary, said: "O
Allah, our Lord! Send us from heaven a table spread (with food) that there may
be for us -

for the first and the
last of us - a festival and a sign from You; and provide us sustenance, for You
are the best of sustainers."

Allah said: "I am going to send it down unto you, but
if any of you after that disbelieves,

Then I will punish him with a torment such as I have not
inflicted on anyone among all the Alamin (mankind and jinn)." (Ch
5:112-115 Qur’an)

It was related that, Issa -Alayhi-Salaam (Jesus) commanded
his disciples to fast for thirty days;

At the end of it, they asked Jesus to bring food from heaven
to break their fast.

"O Jesus! I will take you and raise you to myself and
clear you (of the forged statement that Jesus is Allah's son) of those who
disbelieve,

And I will make those who follow you (Monotheists, who
worship none but Allah) superior to those who disbelieve (in the Oneness of
Allah,

or disbelieve in some of His Messengers, E.g. Prophet Muhammad
Sallallaahu alayhi wasallam, Issa (Jesus)
Alayhi salaam, Musa (Moses) alayhi salaam, etc., or in His Holy Books, e.g. the
Torah, the Gospel, the Qur'an) till the Day of Resurrection.

Then you will return to Me and I will judge between you in
the matters in which you used to dispute." (Qur’an: 3:55).

Almighty ALLAH
Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD) refuted the claims of the Jews and the Christians in
many verses of the Glorious Qur'an.

And hey say: "The Most Beneficent (Allah) has begotten
a son (or offspring or children) (as the Jews say:

Ezra is the son of
Allah, and the Christians say that He has begotten a son (Christ),

And the pagan Arabs says that he has begotten daughters
(angels, etc.))."

Indeed you have brought forth (said) a terrible evil thing.
Whereby the heavens are almost torn, and the earth is split asunder,

And the mountains fall in ruins, that they ascribe a son (or
offspring or children) to the Most Beneficent (Allah).

But it is not suitable for (the Majesty of) the Most
Beneficent (Allah) that He should beget a son (or offspring or children).

There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes unto
the Most Beneficent (Allah) as a slave. Verily,

He knows each one of them, and has counted them a full
counting.

And every one of them will come to Him alone on the Day of Resurrection
(without any helper, or protector or defender). (Ch 19:88-95 Qur’an)

Allah the Exalted also declared: Yet, they join the jinn’s
as partners in worship with Allah, though He has created them (the jinn’s),

And they attribute falsely without knowledge sons and
daughters to Him.

Be He Glorified! And Exalted above (all) that they attribute
to Him. He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth.

How can He have children when He has no wife? He created all
things and He is the All-Knower of everything.

Such is Allah, your Lord! La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the
right to be worshipped but He), the Creator of all things.

So worship Him (Alone), and He is the Wakil (Trustee,
Disposer of affairs, Guardian etc.) over all tings.

No vision can grasp Him, but His Grasp is over all vision.
He is the Most Subtle and Courteous, Well-Acquainted with all things. (Ch
6:100-103 Qur’an)

Almighty Allah commanded: O people of the Scripture (Jews
and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits in you religion, nor say of Allah
aught but the truth.

The Messiah Jesus,
son of Mary, was (no more than) a Messenger of Allah and His Word,
("Be" - and he was) which He bestowed on Mary

And a spirit (Ruh) created by Him; so believe in Allah and
His Messengers. Say not: "Three (trinity)!" Cease! (It is) better for
you.

For Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD) is the only
One Allah (God), Glory be to Him (Far Exalted is He) above having a son.

To Him belong all that is in the heavens and all that is in
the earth. And Allah is All Sufficient as a Disposer of affairs.

The Messiah will never be proud to reject to be a slave to
Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD), nor the angels who are near (to
Allah).

And whosoever rejects His worship and is proud, and then He
will gather them all together unto Himself.

So, as for those who believed (in the Oneness of Allah -
Islamic Monotheism) and did deeds of righteousness,

He will give their
(due) rewards, and more out of His Bounty.

But as for those who refuse His worship and were proud, He
will punish them with a painful torment.

And they will not find for themselves besides Allah any
protector or helper. (Ch 4:171-173 Qur’an)

Almighty Allah also declared: And the Jews say: Ezra is the
son of Allah, and the Christians say: Messiah is the son of Allah.

That is a saying from their mouths. They imitate the saying
of the disbelievers of old.

Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu WA Ta’aala (GOD)'s Curse be on
them, how they are deluded away from the truth!

They (Jews and Christians) took their rabbis and their monks
to be their lords besides Allah,

(By obeying them in
things which they made lawful or unlawful according to their own desires
without being ordered by Allah)

And (they also took as their lord) Messiah, son of Mary,
while they (Jews and Christians)

Were commanded (in the Torah and the Gospel) to worship none
but One Ilah (God- Allah) La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be
worshipped but He).

Praise and glory be
to Him, (far above is He) from having the partners they associate (with Him).
(Ch 9:30-32 Qur’an)

Allah the Almighty also revealed: Now ask them (O Muhammad):
"Are there (only) daughters for your Lord and sons for them?"

Or did We create the angels females while they were
witnesses?

Verily, it is of their falsehood that they (Quraish pagans)
say: "Allah has begotten off-spring or children (angels are the daughters
of Allah)"

And, verily, they are liars!

Has He (then) chosen daughters rather than sons? What is the
matter with you?

How do you decide? Will you not then remember? Or is there
for you a plain authority? Then bring your Book if you are truthful!

And they have invented a kinship between Him and the jinn’s,

But the jinn know well that they have indeed to appear
(before Him) (i.e. they will be brought for accounts).

Glorified be Allah! (He is free) from what they attribute
unto Him! Except the slaves of Allah, Whom He chooses (for His Mercy i.e. true
believers of Islamic Monotheism who do not attribute false things unto Allah).
(Ch 37:149-160 Qur’an)

And Almighty Allah declared: Surely, in disbelief are they
who say that Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary.

Say (O Muhammad): "Who then has the least power against
Allah, if He were destroy the Messiah, son of Mary, his mother, and all those
who are on the earth together?" And to Allah belongs the dominion of the
heavens and the earth,

And all that is between them. He creates what He wills. And
Allah is Able to do all things.

And (both) the Jews and Christians say; "We are the
children of Allah and His loved ones."

Say: "Why then does He punish you for your sins?"
Nay, you are but human beings, of those He has created,

He forgives whom He wills and He punishes whom He wills. And
to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth

And all that is between them and to Him is the return of
all.

O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Now has
come to you Our Messenger (Muhammad) making (things) clear unto you,

After a break in (the series of) Messengers, lest you say:
"there came unto us no bringer of glad tidings and no Warner."

But now has come unto you a bringer of glad tidings and a
Warner. And Allah is Able to do all things. (Ch 5:17-19 Qur’an)

Allah the Exalted warned: Surely they have disbelieved who
say: "Allah is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary." But the Messiah
(Jesus) said:”

O Children of Israel! Worship Allah my Lord and
your Lord." Verily, whosoever sets up partners in worship with Allah?

Then Allah has forbidden Paradise
for him, and the Fire will be his abode. And for the Zalimun (polytheists, and
wrong-doers) there are no helpers.

Surely, disbelievers are those who said: "Allah is the
third of the three (in a Trinity)."

But there is no Illah (god) (none who has the right to be
worshipped) but One Illah (God- Allah).

And if they cease not from what they say, verily, a painful
torment will befall the disbelievers among them.

Will they not repent to Allah and ask His Forgiveness? For
Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger;
many were the Messengers that passed away before him.

His mother (Mary) was a Siddiqah (she believed in the Words
of Allah, and His Books.

They both used to eat food, as any other human being, while
Allah does not eat).

Look how We made the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses,
lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) clear to them,

Yet look how they are deluded away from the truth. (Ch
5:72-75 Qur’an)

And Almighty Allah ordered: And say: "All the praises
and thanks be to Allah,

Who has not begotten a son (nor an offspring), and Who has
no partner in His Dominion,

Nor He is low to have
a Wali (helper, protector, or supporter). And magnify Him with all the
magnificence, (Allahu-Akbar, Allah is the Most Great)." (Ch 17:111 Qur’an)

The pagans once asked the Holy Prophet Muhammad Sallallaahu
alayhi wasallam: "To whom is your Lord related, His original ancestors

And His various branches of descendants?" It is also
reported that the Jews said: "We worship Ezra,

The Son of Allah and the Christians said: "Jesus is the
Son of Allah," and the Magians said:

"We worship the
sun and the moon," and the Pagans said: "We worship idols."

In response to all of them Allah revealed some of His
attributes: Unity, Uniqueness, and other substantives: